
Klimt and Schiele: Drawings
Katie Hanson(Author)
Museum of Fine Arts,Boston (Publisher)
Published on 12. April 2018
Book
Hardback
152 pages
978-0-87846-852-2 (ISBN)
Description
Eloquent and provocative drawings, exquisitely reproduced, provide an intimate encounter with these two daring Austrian masters.
Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were two of the most daring and controversial artists in Vienna during the culturally turbulent decades around the turn of the 20th century. They worked out their provocative depictions of the human body, created in a search for psychological truth as well as physical realism, in the direct and intimate medium of drawing. In Klimt's studies, the distinctive character or unsettling emotional resonance of the person portrayed comes through in the artist's delicate, sinuous lines. The striking presence of the individual in Schiele's more finished drawings, often rendered with extreme frankness and bold colouration, pulses with dramatic immediacy. Although Klimt was almost thirty years Schiele's senior, he quickly recognized and encouraged the younger artist's extraordinary talent. The sixty important works exquisitely reproduced in large format in this volume reach from each artist's early academic studies to more incisive and unconventional explorations of nature, psychology, sexuality and spirituality. By giving viewers access to these artists' worlds, this album of unforgettable drawings provides a direct connection to the minds of two master draftsmen exploring the limits of representation, as well as the shock of recognition at seeing our own inner lives caught on paper.
Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were two of the most daring and controversial artists in Vienna during the culturally turbulent decades around the turn of the 20th century. They worked out their provocative depictions of the human body, created in a search for psychological truth as well as physical realism, in the direct and intimate medium of drawing. In Klimt's studies, the distinctive character or unsettling emotional resonance of the person portrayed comes through in the artist's delicate, sinuous lines. The striking presence of the individual in Schiele's more finished drawings, often rendered with extreme frankness and bold colouration, pulses with dramatic immediacy. Although Klimt was almost thirty years Schiele's senior, he quickly recognized and encouraged the younger artist's extraordinary talent. The sixty important works exquisitely reproduced in large format in this volume reach from each artist's early academic studies to more incisive and unconventional explorations of nature, psychology, sexuality and spirituality. By giving viewers access to these artists' worlds, this album of unforgettable drawings provides a direct connection to the minds of two master draftsmen exploring the limits of representation, as well as the shock of recognition at seeing our own inner lives caught on paper.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Illustrations
Illustrated in colour throughout
Dimensions
Height: 355 mm
Width: 278 mm
Weight
1550 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87846-852-2 (9780878468522)
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Person
Katie Hanson is Assistant Curator, Art of Europe, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston